Military DPR and LPR will be trained to use captured Javelin and NLAW Russia will train the military of the LPR and DPR in handling Javelin and NLAW anti-tank systems, this initiative was previously approved by Putin. These weapons were supplied to Kyiv b

Captured anti-tank missile systems (ATGM) Javelin and guided missile systems NLAW are being transferred to the military personnel of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics for use in combat against Ukrainian forces, they are already being trained in handling these samples, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“Tanks, other armored vehicles and weapons that arrived in significant quantities to Donetsk and Luhansk military personnel were abandoned at their positions and warehouses by retreating Ukrainian nationalists,” the ministry said in a statement.

During the special operation, the Russian military had previously reported on the destruction of warehouses with Javelin and NLAW, for example, on March 5, a missile system storage facility in Zhytomyr was hit by a high-precision weapon. On March 15, near the village of Guta-Mezhigorskaya in the Kyiv region, the Russian military seized a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where there were ten Javelin complexes and “a number of other types of weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine”, they promised to transfer them to the republics of Donbass.